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The 1918 Election and its relevance to Modern Irish Politics
John Bruton
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€7.00 Purchase Single ArticleIn this article I will describe the campaign in the 1918 General Election in the part of Ireland I know best, County Meath, and draw from that local contest broader national themes that marked this election and its aftermath.
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The Algorithmic State? Challenges to Democracy in an Era of Digitalization
Jane Fountain
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€7.00 Purchase Single ArticleIreland 2030 will be a country awash in artificial intelligence, data analytics, machine learning, and other advanced computing applications whirring away in the background throughout the economy and government. While these emerging technologies offer tremendous benefits, they pose equally serious challenges. More broadly, the continuing development of the information society has been accompanied by increasing economic and social inequalities, an existential sense by some of being left behind, loss of community, and – in the wake of increasingly diverse populations – pernicious growth in systemic racism residing in biased data and analytical models that pervasively underpin decision-making.
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The Amazon Synod, Querida Amazonia and Women
Phyllis Zagano
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€7.00 Purchase Single ArticleCommentary before, during, and immediately following the Synod of Bishops for the Pan-Amazon region, 6–27 October 2019, generally focused on two requests: the restoration (at least in that region) of married priests and women deacons.
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The Case for Theology in the University
Con J. Casey
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€7.00 Purchase Single ArticleIn 2012 the board of Trinity College Dublin agreed to establish an institute for teaching and research in theology in the Catholic tradition. The institute, to be called the Loyola Institute, was to be on campus, and its academic discipline would be among the multidisciplinary academic engagements which comprised the mission and raison d’etre of Trinity College.
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The Challenge for Catholic Schools in Contemporary Ireland
Damon McCaul
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€7.00 Purchase Single ArticleIn St John’s gospel (Jn 18:37 – 38), at his trial, Jesus says, ‘Everyone on the side of truth listens to me’.
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The Changed Reality of Being a Catholic Priest in Today’s Ireland
John Littleton
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€7.00 Purchase Single ArticleI was ordained a Catholic priest on 8 June 1986. That is nearly forty years ago, indeed probably half my lifetime. Over the decades since then, my personal reflections along with my conversations with family members, colleagues and parishioners have persuaded me that the experience of being a priest in Ireland in 2022 differs greatly from that of the 1980s and earlier times.
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The Crisis of Democracy: Practice and Theory
Patrick Riordan SJ
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The Dail General Election of August 1923
Anthony White
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€7.00 Purchase Single ArticleThe general election to the Fourth Dáil held on 27 August 1923 was significant in several ways. For the first time all Irish women over the age of twenty-one were eligible to vote. Previously only women over thirty could do so. Another important feature of the election was that for the first time since 1800 all geographic constituencies were contested.Perhaps most surprisingly in retrospect partition did not figure as a major issue in the election.
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The Family Today – Healing and Expansion in Christ: An Anglican Perspective
Ginnie Kennerley
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€7.00 Purchase Single ArticleThere is something non-negotiable about the family. For better or for worse, our parents are our parents and their parents are our grandparents…
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The Flesh Made Word and the Word Made Place: Thomas McGreevy’s ‘Aodh Ruadh O’Domhnaill’
Thomas O’Grady
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€7.00 Purchase Single Article‘Then Mount Jerome for the protestants’, James Joyce has Leopold Bloom muse in the ‘Hades’ episode of Ulysses: ‘Funerals all over the world everywhere every minute.
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The Future of EU Labour Law: Insights from Christian Ethics
Mark Bell
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€7.00 Purchase Single ArticleThis article focuses upon the discreet question of what role, if any, there might be for Christian ethics in shaping the future direction of EU labour law.
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The Future of Liberal Democracy
Chris Patten, Lord Patten of Barnes CH, PC
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€7.00 Purchase Single ArticleIt is a pleasure and an honour to be invited to give this lecture by Studies, and with the hospitality of the Society of Jesus, in honour of a great Irishman, a great European and a great world statesman, Peter Sutherland.
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